Family Story Friday – Fancy Pants Business Card

This blog post is one in the series, Family Story Friday. I hope it inspires you to begin saving family stories one-at-a-time. After all, if you don’t save the stories, who will?

By all accounts, my grandfather was a guy who liked to impress. I can’t personally attest to that as he passed away before I was one-year-old.

Grandpa – Herschel Byron Hendrickson – was a salesman who traveled during the week and was home on the weekends. He liked being a snappy dresser and all-around debonair fellow. However, I think this backfired on him once.

My mom told me that Grandpa wore a large and fake diamond ring. Once night while driving his route he was held up and the robber took the ring, thinking it was a real diamond. I wonder if Grandpa learned his lesson!

The card above is one of his business cards. Hand-drawn, no less, with both purple and green ink. I wonder if Grandpa drew it or if it was created by his dad, James Hendrickson. I have a large picture that James did in this same style and will post it on another episode of Family Story Friday.

I wish I had known Grandpa – he sounds like he was quite the character! Look at the tilt of that hat in this photo with my grandmother! He definitely has that look!

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Hi, I’m Nancy Hendrickson

Thanks for stopping by. I'm the author of the Unofficial Ancestry.com Workbook and an instructor at Family Tree University. This photo was taken while I was visiting the farm where my dad and grandmother were born.